Deepwater SPS only Show!

[Sahin]

Man I wish this thread was longer, just went thru the whole thing.

I know what you mean. I was in a dream world when I was first going though this thread. :tongue:

The sps eye candy thread is nice too. Have a look through that thread. In fact even Reefcentral doesn't have as nice threads as these two threads. I wish more people would contribute to this thread.

 

[Montireef]

B u m p !

It's been a long time folks ;-)

 

[ritter6788]

My Acropora suharsonoi

 

[Ryans85]

 

[Fishguy597]

Not sure what it is. Taken with iPad true colors are more of a purple with a green base and a green ring on tips.

 

[Fishguy597]

Sorry this must be a Devil coral not sure why it posted upside down.

 

[nwpowell0481]

ORA Hawkins Enchinata

 

[barista7105]

I don't know the ID of this, but I believe this is deep water

 

[Vidofner]

 

[DomC]

 

[kungfujoe]

Cell phone pic. But you get the idea.

 

[Marc Pardon]

 

[Silent]

Thread from the dead lol, post em up.

 

[lemonade]

Lokani under natural lighting

 

[BranchingHammer]

ORA Hawkins echinata:

 

[X-37B]

Here is mine. Bought as a wild acro.
Not sure of name.
Doing very well so far and growing on the bottom of my 120.
Anyone have any idea what it may be?

 

[Perry]

Could it be?
Going to pick up a frag of this today, and looking forward to seeing this one in person. Looks very similar to the ORA Dustins deepwater acro, been on my list for 12 years! If not, dang it looks close! @Lazydayz on photo credit and lucky owner of this amazing piece!

 

[elorablue]

Excuse my ignorance but what makes something a 'deep water' Acropora? I don't know if any of mine are. Red Dragon, RRC Rainbow Loom, RRC Shazam, Purple Bonsai. ?

 

[Perry]

Excuse my ignorance but what makes something a 'deep water' Acropora? I don't know if any of mine are. Red Dragon, RRC Rainbow Loom, RRC Shazam, Purple Bonsai. ?

No ignorance at all ;)
Deepwater as far as I know was originally thought that smooth skin acros were collected in deeper waters. As far as I know, this is really not the case. They typically have little to no coralite structure, and polyps are usually visual on tips of branches, making them smooth in appearance.

 

[Perry]

Could it be?
Going to pick up a frag of this today, and looking forward to seeing this one in person. Looks very similar to the ORA Dustins deepwater acro, been on my list for 12 years! If not, dang it looks close! @Lazydayz on photo credit and lucky owner of this amazing piece!

I met up with Nick and scored a piece, in my many years at sps, I am nearly convinced this is the elusive dustins, in his tank, under LED'S, it has green in the base. This coral was released moons before LED'S hit the market, so under my t5's, I am curious to see how this one develops. Today was a great day to score an amazing piece!